I'm a third year med student. I love gynecology and I'm especially interested in Family planning: contraceptives, pregnancy terminations. Eventually I want to be in academic medicine, do research, teach students/residents.
Here's my problem: I'm trying to decide between OB/GYN or family med. If I do OB/GYN, I'd do a FP fellowship too. If I do family, I will try to go to a program with abortion training.
I'm hesitant about OB/GYN because
1) I don't like OB... Delivering babies just doesn't give me a high like it seems others.
2) The lifestyle of residency and attendings seems brutal compared to Family Med.
There is no family planning fellowship at my med school and thus no faculty. I was turned off by my interactions with faculty because no one seemed to know a lot of performing terminations or how to advise a student about this.
I'm looking for someone who is interested in a family planning fellowship, currently in one, or graduated from one for some perspective about it.
-What is life like after finishing this fellowship ie do you see OB patients, take OB call?
-Is it harder or easier to get an academic position after an FP fellowship?
-Does doing terminations make it harder to get a job?
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